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Word: tuna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whale boats interested Los Angeles last week, but tuna-fishing boats worth $250,000 were prepared for trial runs, and contracts calling for another $250,000 worth were signed. Plans were likewise drawn up for a super-tuna boat, to cost approximately $200,000. It will contain freezing compartments capable of holding 600 tons of frozen tuna; the boat will be able to cruise tropical waters for two months at a stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tuna Boats | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...skirted tract of 1,000 acres they have their homes-George at "Killenworth," Charles at "Seamoor," Harold at "Welwyn," Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: 240 Cases | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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